Michael Keen is Deputy Director of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. Before joining the IMF, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Essex and visiting Professor at Kyoto University. He was awarded the CESifo-IIPF Musgrave prize in 2010, and is an Honorary President of the International Institute of Public Finance. Mr. Keen has led technical assistance missions to over thirty countries, and is co-author of books on The Modern VAT; the Taxation of Petroleum and Minerals; and Changing Customs.
Latest posts:
- Peer Pressure: Tax Competition and Developing Economies
- Taxing Oil, Gas and Minerals Across Borders Poses Challenges for Developing Nations
- Tax Treaties: Boost or Bane for Development?
- Fixing the Great Distortion: How to Undo the Tax Bias Toward Debt Finance
- Climate Change: How To Price Paris
- Global Energy Subsidies Are Big—About US$5 Trillion Big
- Fixing International Corporate Taxation—Not Just a Problem for Advanced Economies
- Meeting Rising Pressures to Address Income Inequality—A User’s Guide
- Once And For All—Why Capital Levies Are Not The Answer
- Death and Taxes May be Certain—But Taxes We Can Make Better